Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
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The essay 'Things that aren't doing the thing' explores the idea that technology is not truly 'doing' anything, sparking a discussion on the nature of technology and its relationship to human activity.
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Sometimes it’s even harmful to doing the thing.
But sometimes it’s exactly the right thing to do.
Know when you need to oversimplify and when not and you’ll know Zen.
And when you know Zen you’ll do exactly the thing.
When you do coding, you are only writing instructions for a computer about how to do something. So it is not actually doing something. When a computer runs your code, it is only telling some hardware to pass current through some circuits. Again it is not doing something. Current passing through circuits is not physically moving anything through the wires or metal. So again it is doing nothing.
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